Cadillac

At the age of nine, before I became the number one fan of E-Rotic, my favourite song in the world was 'Cadillac' by The Renegades. I even took my Simply the best of the 60s c-cassette to school were we had a 'levyraati', a song competition, in which we gave points to songs others had brought. Of course the cool kids usually won with their Smurfs CDs. I think I actally won once too, when I had Captain Jack's video with me. You can't beat babes in wet white t-shirts.

Well, back to the Renegades. The story of the band is quite unusual. In 1964, they came for a one off gig to Finland to play at a fashion show and everyone went crazy about them. A seven week tour at local dance floors made them the 2nd Beatles and they ended up recording 4 albums in Finland. After that they had some success in Italy and continental Europe. What makes their story unusual is that they never achieved any big success in their home country and still managed to have such a high impact on the rock culture in a country as remote as Finland at the time.